Opinion Conway’s law has an evil corollary that goes unnoticed in the dev world but wrecks your data org. “You think it’s a hack, but all you’re hacking apart is the value of your data.” (the author) Image by Sven Balnojan. Melvin Conway, a brilliant computer scientist who also invented the notion of a coroutine, has become pretty famous in the last 20 years for a law named after him: “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” Turns out this is very important as we move towards […]